The Key to Delivering Superior Healthcare Solutions

Healthcare is an information rich, knowledge intensive environment. In order to treat and diagnose even a simple condition a physician must combine many varied data elements and information. Such multispectral data must be carefully integrated and synthesized to allow medically appropriate management of the disease. Given the need to combine data and information into a coherent whole and then disseminate these findings to decision makers in a timely fashion, the benefits of ICT to support decision making of the physician and other actors throughout the healthcare system are clear (Wickramasinghe et al., 2006). In fact, we see the proliferation of many technologies such as ABSTRACT